false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173214675m/259020.jpg 259020 67 This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all [James's] novels: it is [his] only novel in which things come out right for his characters ...he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America--and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime." 118576 1909 The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) total:683|5:214|4:214|3:156|2:63|1:36| 683 2556 1271 74 2 4 false false Sun Apr 12 02:36:38 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 03:40:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:47:41 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 09:46:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 13:10:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 14:23:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 22:15:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 03:48:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 04:13:24 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 06:16:04 -0800 2009 The Golden Bowl an ethereal experience. James' use of words as well as his deliberate failure to say things and still communicate epiphany after epiphany is staggering. The sentences fall into one's mind like honey and their sense is as gal...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Jan 01 19:18:50 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 19:20:36 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 31 12:47:25 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 09 21:41:37 -0700 2008 once more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 18 17:07:02 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 11:35:01 -0700 2007 "My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you’re in the...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 06:57:53 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:59:42 -0800 2009 The Golden Bowl is a simple story, very much like a traditional fairy tale. Early on, an Italian prince marries the daughter of a very wealthy American collector. A threat to a "happily ever after" ending is soon introduced, and the story line details how the four primary characters -- T...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 07:05:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 07:45:19 -0700 2009 The Golden Bowl was a fascinating book. The emphasis on subtle and indirect communication, family dynamics, sacrifice, judgement of character, and even the complexity of the main character's eventual solution impressed me once again with James' care for detail, and especially for his deep understand...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 14 22:25:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 15:53:02 -0700 2009 The Portrait of a Lady will no doubt always be Henry James' most read and most loved novel, I think The Golden Bowl is his masterpiece. Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl, along with The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove, constitutes James' final, and most complex, phase as a novelist....more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 05:16:21 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:44:43 -0800 2008 Heady Draught

In The Golden Bowl, James finds the perfect metaphor for his material and his method. The comforts of life, enjoyed by rich Americans Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie, are rounded and finished off by their collection of art. To this connoisseurship of life and art, they a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 11 08:50:03 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 08:53:21 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 18:19:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 22:28:15 -0800 2009 The Golden Bowl . There is a remarkably high verbiage-to-lucidity ratio in this novel, probably because James never read Elements of Style or followed its dictum to avoid unnecessary words. Of c...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 13:28:16 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 13:29:01 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 18 18:10:36 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 18 18:11:01 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 30 21:15:40 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 16 12:30:55 -0700 2009
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